Are you on the Forbidden City’s blacklist? Well, if you’ve drawn a smiley face on a Ming vase, scribbled ‘James was ‘ere’ on the Gate of Divine Prowess or thrown sweet wrappers in the imperial gardens, then you might be – and shame on you!
Beijing officials have grown tired of unruly visitors and have compiled blacklist of 2,500 vandals, litterers, loud-mouths and general forbidden-palace-hoodlums since June this year, China Daily reports.
The thought of museum wardens turning away ‘hoodlum’ tourists, decked out in the mandatory silly cap and khaki shorts is quite a comical thought – but they do have their reasons.